Reversible Wine Bags for GSP Rescue of PA

One dozen reversible wine bags finished today for GSP Rescue of PA.  Each reverses to the solid color of the handle.

Add 1 bottle of wine

  + a ribbon bow

          and GO !!

My New Toy & My Next Project

A few adjustments to the tension and my new toy, a Singer Featherweight sewing machine, is ready to play.  I tested a few pieces of fabric and am quite happy with the stitching.  For 74 years old, this little machine is amazingly quiet and smooth.  It reminds me so much of the Singer I learned to sew on.  It was a bigger machine, one of the first electrics made after the treadle machines were fazed out but it was built bery similar in style and it was black.  But that old machine was not friendly to velvet and velveteen...I got so mad at it one day that I went out and bought a 1965 Singer that I used for 20 years.

I have had that beautiful Hibiscus floral fabric for some time and I finally found a pattern that will set it off.  The coordinating greens and yellows (two of the yellows look faded in the photo, but they are actually equal to the third yellow - camera does funny things) will be used throughout the quilt.  I can't wait to start cutting and sewing as I have been wanting those Hisbiscus flowers on my bed.  I will be documenting my progress on this quilt.

Oh yeah, and I have to make one dozen reversible wine bags for GSP Rescue of PA in the next few weeks.  Busy - I may need some snow to keep me home.

JACKPOT

I am so excited. I just returned from an auction where I scored a 1936 Singer Featherweight sewing machine for less than 1/2 of what it would sell for retail. These machines weigh only about 11 lbs and are treasured by quilters. I am so lucky. Now I can take classes where I would have to provide my own sewing machine.